Barbara, Several people told me that when, at the end of the war, the Government declared all black-market IOUs null and void, they went ahead and paid them...
Barbara and Tony, Almost all the people I interviewed in the 1970s mentioned the name Bradbury (pictured in my book skinning the tiger) in connection with the...
In response to Geoff's enquiry about Mr Bradbury, he had 2 daughters Violet and Joan who'd been evacuated to Australia. In 1928, Joan (a year or so younger...
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Feb 2, 2009 12:37 am
Barbara, Assuming that's the Tony Weller of 1 Bty HKVDC (who was almost killed in Bungalow C during the fighting), I was in contact with him last year. He was...
My aunt Bee Bicheno did talk about the black market and how the government refused to pay the IOUs after the war. This she said was a disgrace and I remember...
Tony, I should think it's the same Tony Weller. I will ask Leilah next time she phones me,when she and family returned to Hong Kong from the P.Is. when we...
I don't remember as a wee bairn in Stanley seeing any acquaintances waving cameras about. My expectation is that this would have made the Japanese in charge go...
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 17:13:36 -0000 "Barbara Anslow" wrote: > Happy and Healthy New Year to everyone! > ... but >I'm sure there would have been some. > > No, my...
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Feb 3, 2009 9:13 am
Don, I think all the ones I have seen were either taken for the Hong Kong News or after liberation. Regards Tony...
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Feb 3, 2009 9:24 am
Barbara, Allana Corbin - Prisoners of the East. It's pretty good. I'm sure she used to have her own website, but it seems to have gone. You can read a little...
Tony, Here are the other 3 pages of Leilah's letter, which don't reveal why they returned to HK from the P.I. but mention uncertainty about it. I will ask...
Re 'Crumb' Chattey - Wright-Nooth's "Prisoner of the Turnip Heads" has several paragraphs on page 62 & 63 about Chattey, who must have been a most interesting...
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Feb 4, 2009 9:19 am
Barbara, Recently I had the opportunity to read several descriptions, in POW diaries, of those visits from Shamshuipo Camp to Stanley. The safety of the POWs...
This is a short account of my recent visit to the three parts of what was once Stanley Camp. I'm writing a longer account on my blog, and I'll post a link when...
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Feb 5, 2009 9:20 am
Brian, Nice piece of writing. With your permission, when you send the URL to your blog I would like to add it to my website. Your parents were in Bungalow D. ...
Thanks, Brian, for sharing your visit! A word about the landscape. I was last there nearly 67 years ago, and it is hard to gather a sharp focus. The...
Brian, your report about Stanley took me right back to my visit there last October, when I had such tumultuous emotions, trying to take in all I was seeing,...
Don - Your memories of the foliage in the camp are the same as mine. I can only recall trees in the cemetery which was a cool place to sit, with a beautiful...
Brian, a very big Thank You for all the photos on you facebook site. I,m so pleased at long last to see the lovely stained glass window in the chapel at St....
Brian, your account of your trip to Stanley was beautifully done and the pictures from your Facebook site added so much to the narrative. I was so struck with...
Dear Rosemary, I'm attaching a photo of the window in St Stephen's Chapel, taken the day Brian Edgar was there, 19 January 2009. Your saying that you were...
The Dairy Farm I remember had a counter with three short sections. The rightmost section was a butcher's display and the left two were for dairy products. The...
Two more come to mind who became famous after the war: BETTY McGOWAN, American/Chinese, repatriated with the Americans 1942 when she was about 17 years old....
This is a P.S. to my email earlier today. Betty McGowan's official surname was FITZGERALD. Barbara...
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Feb 11, 2009 11:51 am
Barbara, And, on a sadder note, from my new book (in the Appendix about POWs and Internees who died in later wars): "Walter John Butler Keates, a schoolboy...
Thanks to Ian and Don for the welcome. I have been somewhat remiss in checking the site over the past few weeks. Health has not been the best. I was blown away...
Today, I added a photo of some American children that was taken in Stanley in 1942. The names of known children are listed, and I hope to discover the identity...
